Fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing · Michigan

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton

Lawton, MI · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton safety composite

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2020→2021

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton injury rate improved

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton's TCR fell 4.8 from 5.8 in 2020 to 1.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.8 · 2021=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Lawton, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #18/41
  • PHOTO Escalon Premier Brand
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Escalon Premier Brand (0.0 TCR gap)

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Welch Foods Inc. Lawton in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Welch Foods Inc. Lawton averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton TCR series: 2020=5.8 · 2021=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Welch Foods Inc. Lawton falls in its industry

330 Fruit juices, fresh, manufactu establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 41 Fruit juices, fresh, manufactu employers in Michigan.

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton (90 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Welch Foods Inc. Lawton
Welch Foods Inc. Lawton (90 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Welch Foods Inc. Lawton has fewer employees than the Fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 5.8 5.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MI · Lawton

330 Fruit juices, fresh, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lawton, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Escalon Premier Brand 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Refresco - Carlisle 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LiDestri Fresno 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Welch's Food Inc. Westfield 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burgess Concrete Construction, Inc 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6663_15443 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Head Quarters 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE MI - Holland - 777 Brooks Avenue - PL 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welch's Food Inc. Lawton 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR HONEE BEAR CANNING 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR welchs 76 FTE
NAT-TCR E&S Precision Machine, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield - OBH 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal X Delta West 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Welch Packaging Indianapolis 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harcourt Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE AVANTech, Inc. - Columbia 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Hill Terrace VLC 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Behr Garry 90 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.